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Welcome home. I'm Dr. Tama, a minister, licensed psychologist, and sacred artists, and this is Homecoming, a

podcast to facilitate your journey home to yourself.

While I will provide weekly inspiration and mental health tips, this

podcast is not a substitute for therapy. I'm so excited you're on the journey. If you

want to request specific topics or share your progress, email me at homecoming

podcast at gmail.com. Also after you listen, be sure to like, subscribe, and share. Let's begin.

Today's topic is feel your feelings.

I hope you did your homework last week as we were dealing with releasing morning

releasing our losses and now this week we want to change our focus to feel your

feelings but just before we get into it I want to thank all of you

who have been sending in the emails requesting topics that you would like covered as

well as sharing with me your process on the journey. If you have not

emailed yet the email address is homecoming podcast at gmail.com. Thank you so

much in advance those of you who will write Thank you

who will write and share. I appreciate you being on the journey with us.

So as we talk about the journey back home, we want to get into that honest space that often

when we are disconnected from ourselves, a large part of that is being disconnected from our feelings.

And so with stress and with trauma, with how we were raised in cultural rules and religious rules, many of us become emotionally shut down. We become numb and not

only do we give surface answers when people say how are you and we automatically say fine it's not just

that we at times lie to other people sometimes we are disconnected from the

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